Bax, S. (2006). Interactive white boards watch this space. IATEFL Call Review summer 2006. Retrieved September 4, 2010, from http://associates.iatefl.org/pages/materials/itskills25.pdf
This article by Stephen Bax in the journal of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language was a review of the literature surrounding Interactive whiteboards (IWB's). Some of this literature at the time was positive towards to new technology, (remember this was written in 2006) and some of the literature was negative towards IWB's. Bax looked at this idea that new technologies were a failure if they didn't improve exam results which the author replied "If this was the case pens should be thrown away". One of the articles that the author looked at in regard to negative feedback to IWB's was an article by Dunley, (2006) in which Dunley compared IWB's to Interactive video disks which today are just expensive museum exhibits. Dunleys main argument against this technology is that IWB's are cost prohibitive he also argued lack of programs and training would see this technology not taking off. Bax concluded by giving his own opinion and disagreed with Dunley saying that there would be a tipping point in the roll out of this technology where the more popular IWB's get will attract more competition in the market, with new companies making them this will result in the price getting cheaper and the technology getting better and more user friendly.
This article has been useful to my research on this topic and has shown me other perspectives than just positive sales pitches, I will now endeavour to find a full version of the article by Dunley (2006).
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